Cost is an unincorporated community in Gonzales County, Texas, United States. According to the Handbook of Texas, the community had an estimated population 62 in 2000.[1]
Cost is located at 29.4375°N -97.5261°W (29.4374607, -97.5288825). It is situated along State Highway 97 in central Gonzales County, approximately six miles southwest of Gonzales.[2]
The first shot beginning the war of the Texas Revolution was fired a mile east of Cost on October 2, 1835.
Cost has a post office, with the zip code of 78614.[3]
Public education in the community of Cost is provided by the Gonzales Independent School District.